Victims, not delinquents - The Boston Globe
Victims, not delinquents - The Boston Globe
It’s a horrific story. But it’s just an extreme example of a scenario playing out all over this state every week, as minors are coerced into selling their bodies to enrich an army of pimps.
Head over to the Germaine Lawrence adolescent treatment center in Arlington and you’ll find plenty of girls who were pressed into prostitution as minors: At least 20 of the 80 girls at the center — most of them runaways — have sold their bodies for shelter, or drugs, or to avoid beatings.
It’s a horrific story. But it’s just an extreme example of a scenario playing out all over this state every week, as minors are coerced into selling their bodies to enrich an army of pimps.
Head over to the Germaine Lawrence adolescent treatment center in Arlington and you’ll find plenty of girls who were pressed into prostitution as minors: At least 20 of the 80 girls at the center — most of them runaways — have sold their bodies for shelter, or drugs, or to avoid beatings.
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